India, Feb. 23 -- IIT Kharagpur has invited applications from interested students for a free Google Cloud Computing Foundations course online, which will be conducted through National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) project. NPTEL is a project of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology and IISc, Bangalore to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs.

The course will be conducted by Soumya K Ghosh, who is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he worked for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in the area of satellit...